Paul Anderson is a Melbourne-based crime journalist. He knows cops, and he knows robbers. Paul is an award-winning newspaper journalist and popular author of HG's true-crime Dirty Dozen series u this is his new gripping and eye-opening novel based on his personal experiences covering Melbourne's crime beat for nearly twenty years, and getting into bed with Victoria's infamous Armed Robbery Squad when he was a rookie u and the indelible images left with him. Paul Anderson has been a Melbourne newspaper crime reporter since 1995. For seven years, until the Armed Robbery Squad's demise, he built a unique bond with The Robbers u professionally and socially. He is one of very few outsiderso to have been welcomed into their inner sanctum: definitely the only ever journalist. Anderson knows how the Armed Robbery Squad men walked and talked. Acted and reacted. Worked and played. He knew their personalities. Their thought processes. Their attitude to criminals. Their view of law and order. Their view on justice. (He even stood with them in a pub fight once). The Armed Robbery Squad has never been the subject of a crime fiction novel u in the main it's the Homicide Squad that writers regularly target for TV shows and books. The Robbers was a misunderstood and demonised squad at times, but content to perpetuate a fearsome image to instil dread and fear in the hearts and minds of bandits. The squad tackled the state's most dangerous criminals. Worked hard, and played harder.